THIS WEEK IN BURMESE BUSINESS NEWS: Mining law to be redrafted; Burma's rubber exports receive a boost; Thai pharmaceutical firm steps up presence in Burma; and read how was the country rated by the World Bank as conducive to business investment.

Japan's approach to foreign investment, characterised by poor transparency and an indifference to human rights, is becoming a threat to Burma's fragile reform process.

This week: foreign banks given open-door treatment; Burmese trade data;SMEs; electricity; nickel mining; dam construction; economic corridor from China to India; Burma's 'Oscars' up for tender; and a well-known beer company taps into the Burmese market.

Although President Thein Sein has been awarded several prizes from international organisations for instituting reforms, the draconian laws that were used to persecute activists are still on the books while the government continues to harass and arrest protestors

Four miners from Moehti Moemi gold mine in central Burma’s Yemathin township, who have been marching to Naypyidaw to protest a government order that closed their mines, were attacked by police and arrested

Employees from Moehti Moemi gold mine in Mandalay division’s Yamethin district who have been protesting against their mine’s closure have had their demands met by the Myanmar National Prosperity Public Company Limited